(SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korea on Friday again vowed to build up its military force to counter what it perceives as U.S. threats and said there would be little reason for a personal relationship between leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump if Washington persists with sanctions and pressure. On the two-year anniversary…
(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — Jacksonville, Florida, has been selected to host the celebration marking President Donald Trump’s acceptance of his party’s nomination for reelection, the Republican National Committee chairwoman said Thursday. Ronna McDaniel made the announcement a day after saying that Jacksonville was a front-runner to hold the event. The governor of North Carolina, the official…
(BEIJING) — Beijing will honor its trade deal with the U.S. and wants to see better ties with Washington, senior Chinese officials said Thursday. Zhu Guangyao, a former finance minister and Cabinet adviser, said the two countries should “waste no time” in improving relations to help better coordinate a response to the coronavirus pandemic. He…
STOCKHOLM — The Swedish government’s decision to go its own way on coronavirus just got political. In the first party leaders’ debate in parliament since the pandemic began, opposition politicians went after Prime Minister Stefan Löfven on Wednesday, saying Sweden’s spiking death rate from COVID-19 and inability to protect residents of elderly care homes represented…
The United States has surpassed 2 million coronavirus cases, even as states forge ahead with reopening their economies and demonstrators gather en masse to protest police brutality and racial inequality. It took the U.S. nearly three months to officially hit 1 million confirmed cases on April 28, but just six weeks to double it. Reporting…
The Trump administration’s Stephen Miller-pushed public health order that has now resulted in the deportation of hundreds of migrant children back to possible danger is now facing its first court challenge, CNN reports. Advocacy groups including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have sued the administration over its attempt to deport a 16-year-old boy who fled Honduras after witnessing…
As previously suspected, it looks like the Republican Party is homing in on Jacksonville, Florida, as the “new” location for Donald Trump’s National Republican Convention. The Washington Post reports that the party’s more boring, proceduralish meetings will still be held in Charlotte, North Carolina, so that the party can dodge lawsuits for breaking their contract,…
WASHINGTON — The White House has told former national security adviser John Bolton that the manuscript of his forthcoming memoir still contains classified material and could present a national security threat. But Bolton’s lawyer said Wednesday that publication will go ahead as planned on June 23 and he accused the White House of unfairly trying…
(FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, N.J.) — A corrections officer who participated in a counterprotest to a Black Lives Matter demonstration in New Jersey in which people reenacted the death of George Floyd was suspended after the video was widely shared on social media. In the video, protesters march along a street Monday in Franklin Township, Gloucester County,…
On the Fox Business Network’s Evening Edit, Media Research Center Founder and President Brent Bozell took aim Tuesday at the chaos-ridden New York Times as having made a “mockery of journalism,” expressed support for law enforcement officers amid nationwide unrest, and denounced the liberal media double standard. Host Liz MacDonald introduced the issue of The…
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week Paul Kiel and Jeff Ernsthausen at Pro-Publica write—Capital One and Other Debt Collectors Are Still Coming for Millions of Americans: Federal, state and local officials have all taken some steps to protect Americans from the ravages of the economic crash due…
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York state lawmakers on Monday repealed a decades-old law that has kept law enforcement officers’ disciplinary records secret, spurred by the national uproar over the death of George Floyd. The measure to make officers’ records and misconduct complaints public is among several police accountability bills racing through the state legislature. Others…
Calling health care a “basic human right,” Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear laid out the basic framework for his plan to provide health coverage to 100% of the state’s Black residents. The basics are that state-subsidized “health insurance connectors” will serve as a conduit between the state’s Black communities and health insurance coverage. The connectors will…
Joe Biden says he, like many white people, was wrong about racism in America. “I thought we had made enormous progress when we finally elected an African American president,” he told voters in a livestreamed “Young Americans Town Hall” last week. “I thought you could defeat hate, you could kill hate. But the point is,…
Some West Virginians voting in Tuesday’s primary will be allowed to tap on their phones or laptops instead of heading to the polls. Some in Delaware will get to do the same next month. And the trend may spread into November, as the coronavirus pandemic inspires a search for voting methods that don’t expose people…
George Floyd’s death at the knee of a Minneapolis police officer inspired worldwide protests against police brutality, but the demonstrators that have been heard the loudest—literally—by President Donald Trump are the thousands who showed up outside the gates of the White House. When photographer Stephen Voss arrived to cover the scene on Sunday, May 31,…
The police response to protests following the murder of George Floyd have included many other instances in which they have demonstrated they’re perfectly willing to commit more violence in front of a watching world. But few moments in the last two weeks have been more distressing than when the Buffalo police not only pushed 75-year-old peace…
Donald Trump is all about branding and he’s been very in love with his whole “Space Force” plan. But somehow those two things didn’t come together competently enough for the Department of Defense to edge out Netflix when it came to global trademarks for the term “Space Force.” “Space is a war-fighting domain just like…
New polling is out and Donald Trump will be shocked to learn that gassing and violently beating peaceful protesters exercising their First Amendment wasn’t as popular as Attorney General Bill Barr likely told him it would be. Trump’s approval plummeted fully seven points since last month in the new CNN/SSRS poll conducted June 2-5, entirely in…
As Kerry Eleveld covered just a short while ago, bunker-cowering president Donald Trump’s job approval numbers in a new CNN/SSRS poll have utterly collapsed—down to 38% approve, 57% disapprove. The poll has presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden ahead by a gaudy 55-41 that, if accurate, would have Biden approaching the 400 electoral vote mark. The…